Yesterday we made what might be, for several months, our last Friday appearance. I had camped with my kids the previous night down near Monroe. I was encouraged to take a day off–but I slipped out of the tent early and made it to the mill at the usual time. Only two [...]

The open house last Sunday was beautiful.  The house looked very good and the little girls of the house wore dresses and ribbons–and they were so happy.  Bishop Flores was happy, too.  He seemed to genuinely enjoy the children.
The mothers of the house were on their own this week.  Alicia Wong and I have returned [...]

In the July 28 entry I told of a boyfriend who had gone on a rampage.  We now know a little more of the story.  A few weeks before we came into the story, the boyfriend’s thirteen year-old son had been shot at the door of the house where we later visited.  There was a [...]